A Visit to Winter

 

The Chicago Bean as glimpsed through bus window condensation, and through the falling snow. I like the yellow streetlight shining in the upper right corner. We went to the big city to have Tgiving with K. Her housemates were on various coasts so we could all three stay in her apartment. It was a rare opportunity and I'm so glad we did it. We had sun the first two days and then a couple days of vigorous snow which was the first significant snowfall of the season in the city. We had good public transport experiences and got to see blackfri shoppers skittering through the snow on Michigan Avenue while on our way to the Art Institute. 

While getting coffee one morning (I loved Fancy Plants' soy flat white, Nod had a life changing mocha at Intelligentsia) we saw someone carrying their xmas tree home on their shoulder. The city was showing us its winter beauty, not just feezing our faces off. Shoutout to the ski coat I received as a hand me down from my sis-in-law in Colorado and my waterproof boots. And our flight out was only a couple hours delayed so we got home in daylight. Abq welcomed us with sun and a temp in the 50s although it has dropped since then. 

At the museum I got to visit a set of beautiful Hiroshige prints: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The colors were amazing and the selected prints were so wonderful and intriguing. Here's some horse butts for ya.  

Straw horse shoes! I never imagined such a thing. 

The trend continued, we got pretty snow in Abq yesterday morning. My view from the office window:

It melted in a couple of hours and there are only traces left in shady spots - the perfect ABQ snow experience. But it got cold and we feel it via our uninsulated windows. K's apartment is very cosy and we're a little envious. Nod did some real estate shopping just for fun. It's weird to think of him, even hypothetically, living in that much winter.